Sentences with word «fixedness»

The challenge arises from the functional fixedness of the boxes containing the candles and the thumbtacks.

«24 The question arises as to why he should be so rigid in his rejection of this account, when earlier the point is labored that we can not know anything of the beginnings.25 In spite of this problem, he introduces the concept of fixedness in which the laws of days, years, and seasons are understood.

As the «new media» of the printed book became common, the debates over the contents of the canon subsided, and instead encouraged by its new fixedness those over the exactness of its inspiration (the development of the doctrines of infallibility, inerrancy, et al) began to spring up.

«Can we evade fixedness through abstraction, can gestures be transformative?

In turn these shifts highlight my interest in the embedded politics of representation and privileging fluid states of possibility over cohesive fixedness.

It's what psychologists call «functional fixedness,» or the tendency to see something only in the way it is traditionally used.

Then, it is a world in which there are not «things», or fixed and static substances, but «becomings», events or occasions, which themselves are foci of energy and experience; only in a macroscopic sense is there such hardness, fixedness, and the like as appears to be the case to the naked eye.

This fixedness, or cognitive bias, often triggers an impasse, related feelings of frustration and negative learning outcomes.